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Updated May 25, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Associate Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted May 25, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2009 in Pune (India) (took a day)
The campus interview generally consists of 2 1:1 technical rounds followed by a HR round. In the 1:1 round, they stress on OS concepts, algorithms, coding, etc. They ask you rate yourself on various competencies at the beginning of the interview, and try to test your stronger suites.
In OS concepts, they generally ask very low level details of semaphores/mutexes, etc. Dining philosopher problem, deadlocks, race conditions, etc also feature in the interview. Besides these, they also ask the sorting algorithms, some puzzles, etc. Overall, the interview process looks good to separate smart people good in computer science fundamentals from those who are not.
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Negotiation Details
Campus offers are generally non-negotialble.
Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Hyderabad (India) (took 3 weeks)
Prepare well for your projects. Most of the questions are on OS, Data structure and algorithms. From the discussion It was clear that they have flexible timings like other organizations. Overall it was a good experience. They took around four tech rounds and one HR round. First they started with a phone screen but it was not a technical round.
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Reason for Declining
I didn't like the profile
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted Jan 11, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Pune (India) (took a day)
There were 2 Telephonic interviews.
Then they had 3 face to face interviews of which 2 were technical and one was taken by Manager.
It was a whole day event as all the interviews were done in same day.
On techincal front they major topics were C/C++, STL, problem solving etc.
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Reason for Declining
Due to developments on personal front.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted Dec 19, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Pune (India) (took 3 days)
HR got my reference through a job site and scheduled a telephonic interview. I was interviewed by an existing employee of the same grade for which I was being interviewed. This was purely a technical round that involved computer engineering concepts, programming language and design principles.
The second round was with technical manager. I was given a case study and then asked to design a software system to solve the problem. First I was asked to create a high-level architecture diagram and then low level component diagram. Then I was asked to write a few small programs (in C#) alongwith explaining the algorithms I use to solve the problems.
The third round was with senior technical manager and this time it was mix of technical as well as inter-personal skill types of questions. I was asked to solve 5 puzzles (of level medium to difficult) and then solve a problem by writing an algorithm and using binary tree approach.
The fourth and last round was with my to-be manager for behavioral skills, and salary negotiations.
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Negotiation Details
Symantec will (almost) always offer you the best salary as per their standards. So the scope of negotiation is very less since they will give you their best offer without any negotiation.
Still, having said that, you can always try to get 3-5% over their initial offer. I was able to get extra 3% on negotiation, that went for about 30mins.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted Oct 17, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Chennai (India) (took a day)
The Process Consisted of PPT,Written Test,3 rounds of technical interview and an HR interview.
In written test,General Computer aptitude questions and a few quantitative Aptitude.
In the interview They ask questions on OS,a few on networks,Data Structures,C++(OOPS) and an interview puzzle
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Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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User Interface Designer at Symantec
Posted Jun 23, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 in Pune (India) (took a day)
The interview was scheduled through the university placement team. The company gave a pre placement talk a day prior to interview. On the day on interview a deign problem was given to solve and it was discussed during the interview.
Symantec recruiters saw the work Portfolio and other relevant works i have done during my graduations and post graduation.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.
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Senior QA Engineer at Symantec
Posted Apr 13, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 in Pune (India) (took a day)
Interview process was pretty fast. But Person who interviewed me was not having domain knowledge. He was having his own preconceived wrong fundamentals. He asked me few stupid questions and then another manager asked few questions. Asked me to write one tricky DB query. But he was not happy with answer I have provided. Overall experience was too bad.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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IT-software at Symantec
Posted Mar 16, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Pune (India) (took a day)
Oncampus interview.
Written test - Computer networks,OS,DSA,DECO with negative marking and Subjective paper tooo
2 rounds of technical interview and 1 HR
if clash 3 rounds of tech interview also possible.
Inteviewers r very gud nd technically sound, Can ask to write code on board,explain OS concepts on board,
Need sound knowledge of DS nd OS.
They give prefernce only to ur Intelligence and knowledge and not a dime to your Previous achievements and projects for selection process.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Software Development at Symantec
Posted Mar 5, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Pune (India) (took 2 days)
Symantec came to our college for placement through pool campus in which we had to compete with another 3 colleges from our University. The recruitment process consisted of a presentation, followed by a written test. The candidates shortlisted for interview were called the next day at the Symantec Campus at Banner. The written was highly technical consisting of questions from Operating Systems, Databases, Computer Networks, Graph Theory, Permutations & Combination, Logical Puzzles, etc. So review the basics of all these subject before appearing for the test. The company personnel conducting the interview were very open and cool. The next day there were 2 technical interviews followed by an HR/Personality interview.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted Sep 12, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 in Pune (India) (took a day)
Lots of technical questions covering lots of areas of software development such as Java/J2EE , databases, design , algorithms. Hands on experience is reqd from the candiate.
Questions included java/j2ee , servlets , jsp , javascript , sql , design patterns , etc.
Lots of questions on synchronization such as singleton patttern, double locking , static variables, architecture , exception handliing.
Also questions regarding junit tests.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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